The New Daughter
is an obscure horror story from 2009. It
features some good acting and is a genuinely creepy story. It’s a tale that is somewhat Lovecraftian in
nature and leave audiences with a freaky ambiguous ending. The film is eerie, subtle, and very
underrated.
John James, played by Kevin Costner, is a recently divorced
writer who moves into a country house with his teenage daughter Louisa, played
by Ivana Baquero, and his young son, Sam.
It turns out that the land has a large burial mound on it. Louisa has a fascination with the mound and
eventually she becomes possessed by an evil spirit within the mound. John is now having to fight to figure out
what is wrong with his daughter and if he can save her.
Kevin Costner brings a very real and vulnerable character to
this film. He shows that he has range
for all sorts of various roles. Ivana
Baquero shows that she has not just hit her peak with Pan’s Labyrinth. As Louisa
she plays a troubled teen that has basically two personalities in flux.
The story is very dark and mysterious. There are eldritch forces in this story and
it works in a H.P. Lovecraft fashion.
The ending is left up to the audience whether it’s a positive or
negative. It’s a clever tale of sinister
forces and the people that interact with them.
This movie is certainly worth checking out. It’s dark and it doesn’t rely on gore but on
eerie suspense. It seems more like a
modern pulp magazine story brought to the screen. I recommend this movie to anyone who is a fan
of the horror genre or anyone who is looking for something different.
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